We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions (ZVS) in medicine and related subjects. This mechanism consists of three procedures based on final grades from school (“Abiturbestenverfahren”, “Auswahlverfahren der Hochschulen”) and on...

Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democraticinstitutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economicdevelopment. Yet despite its importance, our understanding of what determines corruption islimited. This paper uses a novel...

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of shadow...

In an investment contest for environmental policy, polluters and victims ofpollution invest in an increase of their marginal benefits of pollution and environmentalquality, respectively. These investments influence time-consistent environmental policy...

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries´ institutional quality affect the shadoweconomy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of...

This paper provides a comparison of tax morale between inhabitants of East and WestGermany in its post-reunification period, using three World Values Survey/European ValuesSurvey waves between 1990 and 1999. German reunification is particularly interesting for theanalysis of tax morale as it is...

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data...

Dieser Artikel beleuchtet aus einer wirtschaftsethischen Perspektive, wie Globalisierung im öffentlichen Diskurs wahrgenommen wird und wie sie stattdessen wahrgenommen werden müsste, um die mit Globalisierung verbundenen Chancen und Risiken richtig einschätzen zu können. Die Hauptaussagen...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Arbeiten von Jon Elster zum Problem lokalerGerechtigkeit. Das Thema dieser Arbeiten sind Rationierungsentscheidungen. Es geht um die Allokation und Distribution knapper Zuteilungsgüter, also etwa um die Vergabe von Kindergarten- oder Studienplätzen, die Zuweisung...